BOY.
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Published: 2004
Place of publication: LONDON
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 198
Description: Boy - young, inexperienced, grieving for his lost brother, is continually frustrated by his parents and the cloistered life he has led. But one morning, while coming to terms with the fact that he has failed his school exams, his mother sends him to his uncle's house to get marijuana for the upcoming festival. What should have been a simple errand suddenly becomes a spectacular journey of self-discovery. Travelling through the lush Mauritian landscape, filled with gnarled old mango trees, endless sugar cane fields, magnificent sunsets, and eerie, mysterious meanings, Boy quickly confronts the dangers and deceits of the adult world, and with it the possibilities and the terror of freedom.